In another light

Greig, Andrew

ISBN 10: 029784878X / ISBN 13: 9780297848783

Published by London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004

About this Item

Greig, Andrew. In another light. First edition, flat-signed by the author to title page. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. Hardback, VG in unclipped dustjacket wth minor shelfwear to top edge. Green boards, bumped to corners, with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. 389pp. A little spotting to edge of page block; contents clean and bright. "In his fifth novel, Andrew Greig juxtaposes the present-day narrative of Eddie Mackay, recovering from a major brain operation and wrestling with awareness of his mortality, with the narrative of his father Sandy's journey to Penang as a young doctor in the 1920s. Greig's writing about the Orkneys is vivid and convincing as it charts the complex social mix of incomers and Orcadians alongside the wonders of land scape (a winter morning "still and clean - bright like salt has scoured the light" (The Guardian). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In another light
• Publisher: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029784878X
• ISBN 13: 9780297848783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Andrew Greig is a storyteller and a poet, and in this new novel both strands of his talent combine to create an enchanting tale set in two very different worlds. In the early nineteen thirties, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony, and eager for the new opportunities that will open up for him there. He very quickly makes the acquaintance of two sisters, both very beautiful young women, one looking for a husband, the other married. In the confines of the ship, when conventional morality is shelved for the duration, the seeds of a scandal which will rock the close island community of Penang are sown. Seventy years later, forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, recuperating from illness on the wild isolated island of Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew: his father, the respectable Doctor Alexander Mackay, now years dead after a long and blameless career. What he discovers astonishes him, and begins to shed light on his own existence.

About the Author

Andrew Greig is a poet and novelist. He has published six volumes of poetry (Bloodaxe) and four novels, the most recent of which, That Summer, brought him to a wide readership. He was born in Bannockburn in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Orkney and Sheffield (with his wife the writer Leslie Glaister). Among other things, he is known as the unofficial poet laureate of the mountaineering community and a love of the land characterises much of his work.